Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands
Project Design Workshop
30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
AGENDA
This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4).
Group work (continued)
(In parallel) Donors' discussion: what seems interesting about this programme and what would make it more attractive to support or connect with?
0900 Workshop introduction, process and objectives Peter Ballantyne/Ewen Le Borgne.Objectives of the two “parts” of the workshop, how its organized for maximum interaction etc.
0915 Welcome ? [I1](State Minister for Agriculture) and /or Solomon Assefa (Director EIAR)? Shirley Tarawali, ILRI Hezron Mogaka, ASARECA? [I2] Julie Howard, USAID
0930 USAID Feed the Future Initiative research strategy Rob Bertram, USAID
1000 Break
1030 The Dublin Process: International research efforts and the CAADP agenda Tom Arnold, CGIAR Consortium Board; Jeff Hill, USAID, Dublin Process Steering Committee. Need to confirm
1100 Research on sustainable intensification in the CGIAR Research Programs Iain Wright, ILRI. [I3].This would include CRPs (1.1, 1.2 and 5… maybe others… 3.x and 3.7…?) ??? LIVES, SLP work…. Not sure…..
1130 Group discussions: Suggest a format that allows short “buzz groups” on what has been presented. Or maybe a session with those “spectra” of everyone lining up and saying why they are where…..
1200 Feedback/plenary discussion Depending how the previous slot is organized….
1230 Lunch
1330 Presentation of the concept note A panel discussion or some other interesting format to get across the key elements of what is proposed…
1445 Break
1500 Key development (and research?) initiatives with synergies with the new project
Here we need to be imaginative… we have representatives of a diversity of initiatives and need to provide an opportunity for everyone to learn about these, especially in relation to the potential synergies with the project we are discussing…. Maybe the bees and flowers (or whatever it was?)… Need to decide rather quickly because we need to give instructions. My count of who could be “presenting” here, which I’ve tried to cluster….:
National/regional research: EIAR? Maybe not as they are in the core group ASARECA?
Development donors: USAID mission DFID World Bank SIDA CIDA IFAD Netherlands BMGF
NGOs: SAA, CRS, ACDI VOCA, Oxfam,
CRSPs: SANREM Insormil Livestock CC
1645 Close
Tuesday 31st January
0830 Recap and setting the scene for the day’s work; Q and A… Feedback from blog? Highlights from yesterday’s work…….. organization of groups around key issues to discuss expectations from this project. This could include WHAT – research outputs that will be important in relation to these various other initiatives and well as HOW – what are the key opportunities and processes to ensure dialogue continues and outputs are usable, accessible etc… We might want to pre-organise the group leaders and composition? Probably good to have a copy (or summary) of the CN for each group, appropriate resource persons etc….
0930 Working group discussions (Break available 1000-1030hrs)
1230 Lunch
1400 Feedback from working groups
1500 Break
1530 Core group – highlights of what needs to be integrated into the proposal Some way to capture the key messages from the past two days that will need to be incorporated into the proposal.
1630 Close
Wednesday 1st February
0830 Recap of lessons from first two days discussions [I5]
0900 Key elements of proposal - discussion and agreement on these Probably something like refining the hypotheses, objectives and outputs?
1000 Break
1030 Key drivers of site selection Based on the hypotheses agree on key drivers of intensification that will allow us to set up a gradient and test these…
1100 “live GIS” for site selection An, Dave and Stan have data layers….
1230 Lunch
1400 Key research outputs in sites Once we have the combination of outputs and sites it should be possible to be more precise for each site on what the outputs look like – for example, in a maize-dairy area, the combinations of technologies to be tested need to relate to these priority enterprises….
1500 Break
1530 Summary, conclusions, preparation for Thursday Keep everyone on board… where have we got to and what we need to do….
1700 Closing
Thursday 2nd February
0830 Designing project activities, roles, timelines, milestones…. (“logframe”) (Break available 1000-1030hrs) Based on the agreed outputs, and sites, what are the activities (in 2012 I guess) that will be implemented on the ground, etc… who takes responsibility for these…. Need to make sure we keep an “integrated” approach….not having each centre/partner having their own set up in each location etc 1230 Lunch
1400 Principles for budget development Budgeting in this group is not possible, but we need to agree on principles, based on what will have been discussed earlier in the day etc, and a time frame by when budget drafts will be sent for collation, a process for revision etc (because its bound to be too much initially!)
1500 Break
1530 Monitoring and evaluation plans Stan Wood, IFPRI
Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands
Project Design Workshop
30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
AGENDA
This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4).
USAID Feed the Future Initiative research strategy Presentation by Rob Bertram
USAID Ethiopia - Objectives and projects in the country Presentation by Cullen Hughes
Aligning with CAADP
Comments on questions posed in the blog
(In parallel) Donors' discussion: what seems interesting about this programme and what would make it more attractive to support or connect with?
17:00
Close
Reminder about the Ghana lessons and the road to Dar-es-Salaam / how to ensure some degree of consistency across the programme and alignment with CAADP and the Dublin agenda.
Site selection criteria (continued)
early wins across the project [diego]
integrating farming system components in a Hi-HI site [alastair]
integrating farming system components in a Lo-Lo site [alan]
Agenda for the organisers - D-e-S workshop Feb 2012
0830
Registration
Tiruwork Melaku, Wubalem Dejene
0900
Workshop introduction, process and objectives
Peter Ballantyne/Ewen Le Borgne. Objectives of the two “parts” of the workshop, how its organized for maximum interaction etc.
0915
Welcome
? [I1](State Minister for Agriculture) and /or Solomon Assefa (Director EIAR)?
Shirley Tarawali, ILRI
Hezron Mogaka, ASARECA? [I2]
Julie Howard, USAID
0930
USAID Feed the Future Initiative research strategy
Rob Bertram, USAID
1000
Break
1030
The Dublin Process: International research efforts and the CAADP agenda
Tom Arnold, CGIAR Consortium Board; Jeff Hill, USAID, Dublin Process Steering Committee. Need to confirm
1100
Research on sustainable intensification in the CGIAR Research Programs
Iain Wright, ILRI. [I3]. This would include CRPs (1.1, 1.2 and 5… maybe others… 3.x and 3.7…?) ??? LIVES, SLP work…. Not sure…..
1130
Group discussions:
Suggest a format that allows short “buzz groups” on what has been presented. Or maybe a session with those “spectra” of everyone lining up and saying why they are where…..
1200
Feedback/plenary discussion
Depending how the previous slot is organized….
1230
Lunch
1330
Presentation of the concept note
A panel discussion or some other interesting format to get across the key elements of what is proposed…
1445
Break
1500
Key development (and research?) initiatives with synergies with the new project
Here we need to be imaginative… we have representatives of a diversity of initiatives and need to provide an opportunity for everyone to learn about these, especially in relation to the potential synergies with the project we are discussing…. Maybe the bees and flowers (or whatever it was?)… Need to decide rather quickly because we need to give instructions. My count of who could be “presenting” here, which I’ve tried to cluster….:
National/regional research:
EIAR? Maybe not as they are in the core group
ASARECA?
[I4]:
ATA
AGP
SLM
HABP
Development donors:
USAID mission
DFID
World Bank
SIDA
CIDA
IFAD
Netherlands
BMGF
NGOs:
SAA, CRS, ACDI VOCA, Oxfam,
CRSPs:
SANREM
Insormil
Livestock CC
1645
Close
Tuesday 31st January
0830
Recap and setting the scene for the day’s work; Q and A…
Feedback from blog? Highlights from yesterday’s work…….. organization of groups around key issues to discuss expectations from this project. This could include WHAT – research outputs that will be important in relation to these various other initiatives and well as HOW – what are the key opportunities and processes to ensure dialogue continues and outputs are usable, accessible etc… We might want to pre-organise the group leaders and composition? Probably good to have a copy (or summary) of the CN for each group, appropriate resource persons etc….
0930
Working group discussions
(Break available 1000-1030hrs)
1230
Lunch
1400
Feedback from working groups
1500
Break
1530
Core group – highlights of what needs to be integrated into the proposal
Some way to capture the key messages from the past two days that will need to be incorporated into the proposal.
1630
Close
Wednesday 1st February
0830
Recap of lessons from first two days discussions
[I5]
0900
Key elements of proposal - discussion and agreement on these
Probably something like refining the hypotheses, objectives and outputs?
1000
Break
1030
Key drivers of site selection
Based on the hypotheses agree on key drivers of intensification that will allow us to set up a gradient and test these…
1100
“live GIS” for site selection
An, Dave and Stan have data layers….
1230
Lunch
1400
Key research outputs in sites
Once we have the combination of outputs and sites it should be possible to be more precise for each site on what the outputs look like – for example, in a maize-dairy area, the combinations of technologies to be tested need to relate to these priority enterprises….
1500
Break
1530
Summary, conclusions, preparation for Thursday
Keep everyone on board… where have we got to and what we need to do….
1700
Closing
Thursday 2nd February
0830
Designing project activities, roles, timelines, milestones…. (“logframe”) (Break available 1000-1030hrs)
Based on the agreed outputs, and sites, what are the activities (in 2012 I guess) that will be implemented on the ground, etc… who takes responsibility for these…. Need to make sure we keep an “integrated” approach….not having each centre/partner having their own set up in each location etc
1230
Lunch
1400
Principles for budget development
Budgeting in this group is not possible, but we need to agree on principles, based on what will have been discussed earlier in the day etc, and a time frame by when budget drafts will be sent for collation, a process for revision etc (because its bound to be too much initially!)
1500
Break
1530
Monitoring and evaluation plans
Stan Wood, IFPRI
1630
Next steps, time frame
1700
Closing